News

January 2024

Successfully Teaching Adults - Blenheim

Wed, 2024-01-10 14:09

Over the past few months (in 2023), Jennifer Leahy of ACE Aotearoa has been running a series of workshops with a focus on successfully teaching adults. The immersive workshops are designed to share knowledge, skills and strategies to inspire and engage with the adult learning community. Taking a collaborative and interactive approach to the subject, the workshops delve deep into the art and science of teaching adults and the format encourages networking and knowledge sharing.

International: Women With Wheels

Wed, 2024-01-17 14:23

India’s Azad Foundation provides livelihoods with dignity for resource poor women living in urban areas in India. The Foundation is driven by the vision of a world where all women, in particular women from underprivileged backgrounds, enjoy full citizenship, earn with dignity and generate wealth and value. They are a professional feminist organisation working across religious and social divides to enable resource-poor women to empower themselves.

Te Hā o Mātauranga

Wed, 2024-01-24 10:57

Kaikōura is well known for its amazing scenery, dolphins and Whale Watch, Nin’s Bin (the kōura/crayfish caravan on the side of the coastal road) and as a halfway stop on the road trip from Ōtautahi to Picton. Now there is another reason to take note of this small South Island east coast community. Te Hā o Mātauranga, Learning in Kaikōura is designed to foster and encourage learning in the Kaikōura community. Their stated dream is to create a “goto” place for Kaikōura residents who want to learn.

From Learning to Read to Writing a Book

Wed, 2024-01-31 07:54

Admitting to literacy issues and then seeking assistance can be hard for learners, with many uncomfortable about sharing their learning difficulties. People with literacy issues do not seek help for many reasons, including embarrassment, and sometimes being unwilling to tell people about their problem. That’s why it was great to see Jay Blades, presenter of TV’s The Repair Shop, recently go public with his reading difficulties. Jay left school with no qualifications and he’s not alone in facing this issue.